About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

Thursday, March 15, 2007

March 15......

March 15 is the 74th (75th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 291 days remaining in the year on this date.

In the Roman calendar March 15 was known as the Ides of March.

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

EVENTS

● 44 BC - Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.

● 221 - Liu Bei, a Chinese warlord and member of the Han royal house, declares himself emperor of Shu-Han, claiming his legitimate succession to the Han dynasty.

● 351 - Constantius II elevates his cousin Gallus to Caesar, and puts him in charge of the Eastern part of the Roman Empire.

● 493 - Theodorik the Great beats Odoaker of Italy

● 752 - St Zachary ends his reign as Catholic Pope

● 933 - Battle at Riade: German King Henry I beats Magyaren

● 1311 - Battle of Halmyros: The Catalan Company defeats Walter V of Brienne to take control of the Duchy of Athens, a Crusader state in Greece.

● 1341 - During the Hundred Years War, an alliance was signed between Roman Emperor Louis IV and France's Philip VI.

● 1360 - France invasion army lands on English south coast, conquers Winchel

● 1672 - Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence.

● 1729 - A Ceremony of Profession was held for Sister St. Stanislaus Hachard at the Ursuline convent in New Orleans, thereby making her the first Catholic woman to become a nun in America.

● 1744 - French King Louis XV declares war on England

● 1778 - Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island discovered by Captain Cook

● 1781 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Guilford Courthouse - Near present-day Greensboro, North Carolina, 1,900 British troops under General Charles Cornwallis defeat an American force numbering 4,400.

● 1783 - In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'etat never takes place.

● 1839 - Scottish clergyman Robert Murray McCheyne wrote in a letter: 'All my ideas of peace and joy are linked in with my Bible; and I would not give the hours of secret converse with it for all the other hours I spend in this world.'

● 1892 - Jesse W. Reno patented the Reno Inclined Elevator. It was the first escalator.

● 1894 - France - The Belgian anarchist Jean Pauwels dies while attempting to blow up the Madeleine church in Paris. His bomb exploded prematurely. Pauwels is also suspected of being responsible for the explosions a month earlier on rue Saint Jacques and rue du Faubourg Saint Martin.

● 1901 - German Chancellor von Bulow declared that an agreement between Russia and China over Manchuria would violate the Anglo-German accord of October 1900.

● 1902 - In Boston, MA, 10,000 freight handlers went back to work after a weeklong strike.

● 1903 - The British conquest of Nigeria was completed. 500,000 square miles were now controlled by the U.K.

● 1903 - Frederick Lugard occupies Sokoto West Africa

● 1904 - Three hundred Russians were killed as the Japanese shelled Port Arthur in Korea.

● 1906 - Rolls-Royce Ltd. is registered.

● 1907 - Finland is 1st European country to give women the right to vote

● 1907 - In Finland, woman won their first seats in the Finnish Parliament. They took their seats on May 23.

● 1943 - World War II: Third Battle of Kharkov - the Germans retook the city of Kharkov from the Soviet armies in bitter street fighting.

● 1944 - World War II: Battle of Monte Cassino - Allied aircraft bomb the Nazi-held monastery and stage an assault. {A Proud Liberal worked for the last German soldier who left the monastery. His first experience in the US was as a POW in southern Arizona. He would return to Germany to find his entire family killed by the Soviets, he emigrated to the US in the late 1950's living here until his death in the early 1990's.}

● 1945 - Catholic University of Nijmegen reopens

● 1946 - British premier Attlee agrees with India's right to independence

● 1947 - John Lee appointed 1st black commissioned officer in US Navy

● 1949 - Clothes rationing in Great Britain ended nearly four years after the end of World War II.

● 1950 - American missionary and martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'The believer is a displaced person. He loses the controlling features of both environment and heredity.'

● 1950 - NYC hires Dr Wallace E Howell as its official "rainmaker"

● 1951 - Persia nationalizes Anglo-Iranian Oil Company

● 1951 - General de Lattre demanded that Paris send him more troops for the fight in Vietnam.

● 1952 - In Cilaos, Réunion, 73 inches (1,870mm) of rain falls in one day, setting a new world record.

● 1953 - The first Southern Baptist church in North Dakota was formed in Williston, with 12 charter members. (The North Dakota Southern Baptist Association was formed the following year with five member churches.)

● 1963 - Victor Feguer, a Federal prisoner, is put to death at the Fort Madison, Iowa prison. This would be the last execution of a Federal prisoner until the execution of Timothy McVeigh in 2001.

● 1964 - Atomic Energy Commission admits that an unplanned release of radiation from an underground nuclear test spewed fallout over Las Vegas. During the 1950s and 1960s, more than 200 U.S. nuclear explosions have sent huge radioactive clouds into the atmosphere. Since 1962, the atmospheric tests have been replaced by underground tests like the one near Las Vegas. The National Association of Radiation Survivors estimates that victims number 886,000. A 1980 report by a U.S. House of Representatives committee finds - "The Government's programs for monitoring the health effects of the tests was inadequate and, more disturbingly, all evidence suggesting that radiation was having harmful effects, be it on sheep or people, was not only disregarded but actually suppressed."

● 1965 - President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to Selma crisis, tells U.S. Congress "We shall overcome" while advocating the Voting Rights Act, new legislation to guarantee every American's right to vote.

● 1966 - Arrest of a black high school student for throwing bricks and stones at passing cars touches off a wave of looting and burning in Watts, California. Two killed and 25 injured in the riot, the second major disturbance to break out in the Los Angeles ghetto in less than a year.

● 1972 - Top-rated Top 40 Los Angeles Radio station KHJ raided by police after calls from listeners who feared there'd been a revolution at the station from 6:00 to 7:30 in the morning. DJ Robert W. Morgan had played Donny Osmond's "Puppy Love" over and over. The police left without making any arrests.

● 1972 - Assassination attempt on Governor George Wallace of Alabama

● 1972 - Danish airliner hit mountain in Sheikdom of Oman killing 112

● 1972 - NASA selects 3 part configuration for Space Shuttle

● 1974 - Architect jailed over corruption; Architect John Poulson has been jailed for five years for bribing public figures to win contracts.

● 1974 - Brazilian President Garastazu Médici resigns

● 1975 - Bundy victim Julie Cunningham disappears from Vail CO

● 1975 - Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, the husband of former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, died at age 69.

● 1976 - Tube driver shot dead; The driver of a London Underground train is shot dead as he chases a gunman after a bomb exploded on his train.

● 1976 - Failed coup in Nigeria

● 1977 - US House of Representatives begin 90 day test of televising its sessions

● 1990 - The ethnic clashes of Târgu Mureş begin on the anniversary of the Revolutions of 1848 in the Habsburg areas.

● 1990 - Fernando Collor de Mello sworn in as President of Brazil

● 1991 - 4 Los Angeles police are charged with beating Rodney King

● 1991 - Yugoslav President Borisav Jovic resigned after about a week of anit-communist protests.

● 1991 - Territories of Amapa & Roraima become states in Brazil

● 1991 - Germany formally regains complete independence after the four post-World War II occupying powers (France, the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union) relinquish all remaining rights.

● 1992 - UN officially embarks on its largest peacekeeping operation

● 1993 - United Nations "Truth Commission" concludes that most of the human rights abuses in El Salvador during its civil war had been committed by the U.S.-backed Salvadoran government.

● 1994 - U.S. President Clinton extended the moratorium on nuclear testing until September of 1995.

● Roman Catholic:● St. Aristobulus● St. Clement Hofbauer, priest/missionary (died 1820)● St. Leocrita● St. Longinus● St. Louise de Marillac, widow● St. Mancius● St. Menignus● St. Monaldus of Ancona● St. Matrona● St. Nicander● St. Raymond of Fitero● Bl. Arnicus of Averbode● Bl. William Hart

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for March 2 (Civil Date: March 15)● Hieromartyr Theodotus, Bishop of Cyrenia.● St. Arsenius, Bishop of Tver.● St. Agatho of Egypt, monk.● Martyr Troadius of Neo-Caesarea.● Virgin Martyr Euthalia of Sicily.● 440 Martyrs slain by the Lombards.● Saints Sabbas and Barsanuphius, abbots of Tver.● St. Sabbatius, monk of Tver, and his disciple St. Euphrosynus.● St. Chad, Bishop of Lichfield

● Greek Calendar:● Martyr Hesychius the Senator.● St. Cointus of Phrygia, confessor and wonderworker.● Martyrs Andronicus and the virgin Athanasia.● Appearance of the Kolomna icon of the "Reigning" Mother of God (1917).● Repose of Abbess Philareta of Ufa (1890).

● Christian:● St. Longinus, soldier with spear

● In the Roman calendar, the Ides of March.

● International Day Against Police Brutality

● For corporations in the United States that use the calendar year as their fiscal year, the date on which the corporation must file its corporate income tax return

● Constitution Day in Belarus

● National holiday in Hungary celebrating the 1848 Revolution.

● World Consumer Rights Day

● Honduras : Thanksgiving Day

● India, Mauritius, Nepál : Holi

● Iran : Armed Forces Day/Labor Day

● Liberia : JJ Robert's Birthday (1809)

● Admission to the United States:● Maine: 23rd state (1820)

● Tennessee : Andrew Jackson's Birthday (1767)

● In Japan, Hounen Matsuri

IN FICTION

● 44 BC - Deaths of Xena and Gabrielle by Crucifixion

● 1972 - Worst day ever in The Fairly Oddparents

● 1973 - In an alternate timeline in Back to the Future Part II, George McFly murdered by Biff Tannen.

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